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Whether relative or absolute state immunity applied in the context of employment contracts.

Whether foreign governments were immune from the jurisdiction of Dominican courts to pronounce on the existence of debts between them and an individual and to authorize the seizing of money...

Whether, under the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, a foreign state could claim sovereign immunity from attachment or execution against certain intangible assets and thereby avoid a...

Whether the next-of-kin's right under Article 2 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (‘European Convention on Human Rights’) to an investigation...

Whether federal courts had subject matter jurisdiction under the Alien Tort Statute for a single murder committed by private actors in the course of an armed conflict.

Whether absolute immunity of a foreign head of state superseded international human rights.

Whether a foreign state enjoyed immunity in a case concerning the performance of a contract for the construction of buildings for non-commercial state functions.

Whether a foreign embassy had immunity from a counterclaim if it had brought the initial claim before a domestic court in the forum state.

Whether the placement of Kosovo under United Nations administration resulted in the loss of nationality of a Serb national residing in Kosovo.

Whether Britain was required to return Mr Savarkar to France as a result of his irregular apprehension in Marseilles after escaping from a ship on which he was held under British authority.

Whether an embassy enjoyed immunity in a domestic civil court for breach of an employment contract towards a foreign employee.

Whether the Croatian Constitutional Court could review the constitutionality of decisions of a United Nations organ.

Whether actions of the Croatian Army, carried out with the aim...

Whether the objection to the Court's jurisdiction as to the lack of jurisdiction ratione temporis should be upheld.

Whether the issuance of state bonds and subsequent legislative acts extending the term of interest payment on account of a situation of national public emergency fell within acta iure...

Whether customary or conventional international law obliged Canada to provide for civil actions against a foreign State for acts of torture committed in that State.

Whether an...

Whether international or domestic law necessitated the inclusion of a person’s country of birth in a Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (‘HKSAR’) passport.

Whether the...

Whether Canada, as landlord of an international organization that enjoyed immunity, may be sued by an employee of that organization for injury at his place of employment.

Whether the granting of immunity to foreign states over certain aspects of employment-related disputes constitute an infringement of the right not to be removed from the court...